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Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

My life is currently under a huge adjustment, and it is not an easy one. But I know it will get easier eventually, and that I have the power not to stay this angry woman I am sometimes. I can still be the positive thinking and fun lady I was before.

This week, I am grateful for:

• The Facebook group created by Samantha Kira. These women are very supportive and help me a lot in this above-mentionned adjustment.
• The Universe is listening to us and is answering our prayers. Big Time. Now, we have to show we can and will continue our efforts.
• I received my orders from Lindy Stamp Gang and Bluemoon Scrapbooking, and we went to Clipper Street to pick up my order of The Crafter’s Workshop‘s templates (Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s line is AMAZING). You know how happy and over the moon I am when it comes to play with new art supply.
• I am physically in pain, exhausted doing nothing, cooking and other simple stuff is now a difficult task, but I do know that we will find solutions to make it easier.
• I walked 2.52km (± 1.56 miles) in 26mn and despite the pain during and after it, it makes me proud. I have to do it again.
• Lush’s «Blue skie and puffy clouds» bath thingy makes me happy. I love patchouli and frankincense’s smell. I am happy I indulged myself with one (that will do me like 4-5 baths !)
• I haven’t really work this week and it makes me feel guilty because I should push and just do it. I am grateful to work from home and to have the possibility to manage my time as I want.
• I feel the need to reconnect with the Witch in me. And I notice that my daughters seem to be interested to learn more and more about it. I guess it is now time to pass what I know to them and to dig deeper myself.
• I am asking to The Universe to put on my way my Soul Brothers and Sisters. I feel like this big loneliness hole in me is linked to this. This I don’t know what is missing was not what I though… I need to connect with them, to find them. Or them to find me. I am ready now.
• The medical comission finally met for mom. I don’t know if what Grenouille and I did helped, or not, but it did happen. Now, we are praying that her treatment will go perfectly and start asap and that she will be on her plane to Vancouver on October 18th (if you want to send your good vibes, it is more than welcome).
• My Art Journal is my creative best friend. And I have to say that the Strathmore Visual Journal is a very good one.
• I FINALLY signed up for my Reiki training. If everything goes well, I should be a Practical Reiki Master this October.
• My dear friend Anu launched her coaching website. She is AMAZING, no kidding. I am happy we met thanks to Circe’s Circle and found each other. Go celebrate with her, right there.

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It is 6:28pm. My girls are loudly playing while in their bath, my husband is not home from work yet and my brother-in-law came back from his adventures not so long ago. Surprisingly, my daughters napped quite long today, and to be honest this is a good thing as I am a total mess being around.

I do not recognize the Nolwenn I used to be anymore, and it scares me. It makes me hate me.
I knew that fibromyalgia would change my life, would maybe change me. I don’t know if all is linked or not. I just know that I just don’t like feeling like I do because it does not look like me.

Body image issue is hitting me back in the face, when I did not expecting it at all.

I am moody, sometimes mean, I want to be alone (usually i am just happy to have my relatives around, now it is just too much).

I won’t spread the details, I am just not in that good place I used to experience, not finding this Inner Voice telling me that everything will be alright that I should not worry that much, that I should stop hating myself for what I am (or am not). Praying, begging for signs that do not come or that I do not see…

I just needed to create to shake things, hoping it would shift something.

Not finished yet but I wanted to share the words with you. Hoping it will speak to someone as well…

Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

How was this week ? I know for a lot of you Moms out there it was back-to-school week. I hope all went well for you as for your kids (or not so kids anymore). For us, it will be in September, in just a bit more than 2 weeks from now. I love my kids but school time is much better for all of us than two months of vacation 😉 And the girls are soooo excited !

This week, I am thankful for:

• My creative juice, still yummy and pouring on the canvas.
• I finished my Art Journal and started (hmmm in fact, I just gesso-ed the first page but still) the #5. You can see the video right here if you haven’t watched it yet. Feels good. A page is being turned, plenty of others are just wainting to be created, discovered, written.
• I love my Mamounette (aka Mom), and she will be with us in 2 months from now. Despite all the crap happening, I know she will still be coming.
• We received a package full of goodies from my family-in-law.
• Words with friends can be funny, after all.
• Rising Appalachia‘s music, I listened to it over and over all week.
• The kindness of the ladies at the scrapbook store Clipper Street. Can’t wait to play with my new stencils from Crafter’s workshop.
• I got a sale from my affiliation with Goddess Leonie. Thank you to you who made it through me. I know you will enjoy the Goddess Circle.
• Teesha Moore is way more than an amazing inspiring artist.
• Thank you to you, who come on my blog, and take the time to stay, read a bit, comment sometimes. It’s okay if you don’t leave a word too.
• I received very nice comments on my Art journal video. It is always something that warms my heart.
• I started writing daily again. Just venting, sorting things out.
• My brother-in-law arrived to day for his vacations with us, he is the one who comes every single summer since the first year of our Canadian life (the first one, was 6 months after our arrival). He will be here for Grenouille’s birthday. It means a lot to her.

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Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

How is it going in your part of the World ? Here, it smells back-to-school, which makes all my family happy. We are not the types to cry when school is back, but to wait for it impatiently. It always were, for both our girls (especially for Grenouille, indeed). She will be a first grader, in a new school, while Koala will be in her last year of preschool (and can’t wait to go to kindergarten !). Since I was little, my favorite thing in summer was August so we can start shopping for new school stuff, new notebooks, pens, glue, and most of all: agenda !!!

As I already told you, I attended a workshop with Teesha Moore a week ago (already) and I am still filled with inspiration it brought. Oh and don’t forget the giveaway at the end of this blogpost, you could be the lucky winner of an amazing book !

This week, I am grateful for:

• Stretching my creativity beyond my comfort zone.
• Trespassing the big fear of putting my original paintings in my shop. On the two I listed, one is gone. You can see it right there. Pricing it correctly and then estimating the shipping fees are now, honestly, what is holding me back. Pricing too high, not enough, asking for $30 shipping to add to the bill… it makes me wanna curl up and not do it. BUT I know my artwork can resonate with people who would love to have it theirs, so I am doing it anyway, thinking of it.
• Sunshine
• Our little vacation in Seattle area. We spent a day at the zoo, which was amazing by the way, shopped…
• I met Kym and Violette, finally.
• Ladies at the workshop seemed to have loved my MOO business cards, I gave some of them and they looked really happy.
• I am not listening to my body telling me «i am fucking tired right now. and in pain» because i would not do anything. I do pay the price, though. But at last I get work done…
• I can’t wait to get the new stencils by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer with The Crafter’s workshop, that the shop Clipper Street specially ordered for me. Kim, who I dealt with, is very nice.
• More people seem to find their way toward here, makes me happy and I hope they will come back.
• I really feel like I have something important to share with the World. I just have to find out how to get there because there are so many other people with amazingly fantastic messages as well. I just want to be seen too.
• The dulce de leche cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory. Gosh this was soooo good ! Why isn’t there a Cheesecake Factory in Vancouver ? Yes, right. because I try to manage my weight. Duh !

There is more but… just keep it short today.

A bit of eye candy until I post more properly about them:

Much love,

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Gratitude Friday is a weekly ritual I started in order to focus on all the small and big positive things that happened during my week. I invite you to join me, you’ll see how much being thankful can change your life. If you want to know more about it, read my introduction post.

Hello !

I have to say that the painkillers (that originally are meds for people suffering from convulsions… duh !) are helping quite a lot with the FMS pain. Not with the huge fatigue. But I can finally get some stuff done.

This week, I am thankful for:

• The Medicine Bundles I finally received from Pixie Campbell. Not her fault, the first package she sent me back in mid-june never ever arrived to me. The Whale one is for me, she is one of my totems, the Beaver one is for my Mom.
• The strength of my Mom; she is going through a lot of very bad stuff this week and she is the one telling me “everything is gonna be okay”.
• The support from my Tribe Sisters and from my friend Anu.
• My new tattoo is just way better than in my dreams.
• The meds are helping. Dreams were gone the first 3 nights but are back, I wish they would be happier though.
• My girls are healthy and happy.
• My husband loves me as much as I love him. Unconditionally.
• I pour my heart in my paintings, and people seem to connect.
• We handpicked some berries and I made 9 jars of marmelade. I have to do strawberries. Will get us through until next summer.
• I cooked vegetables couscous (in Europe, “couscous” does not name the cereal but a meal, originated from North Africa) and it was very yummy. Will do it again.
• An unexpected phone call.
• I was able to fix to of my favourite pants, with my sewing machine, myself.
• We are spending a few days in Seattle.

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